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Highest ROI Arts Majors

Top 50 Arts college majors by ROI percentile

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 Georgia Tech Industrial Design $125,345 99 95% 11 13% 1460
2 Carnegie Mellon Design $135,816 99 93% 36 11% 1530
3 Brigham Young Housing and Interior Design $107,056 99 91% 13 35% 1360
4 U. of California, Berkeley Urban Studies $105,067 98 89% 26 11% —
5 San Jose State Design and Applied Arts $93,917 97 98% 161 50% —
6 San Jose State Interior Design $93,917 97 98% 22 50% —
7 San Jose State Graphic Design $93,917 97 98% 15 50% —
8 San Jose State Industrial Design $93,917 97 98% 12 50% —
9 Brigham Young Animation $87,288 96 83% 27 35% 1360
10 CUNY Hunter Urban Studies/Affairs $86,148 96 94% 19 28% 1260
11 Art Center College of Design Entertainment Design $97,165 94 93% 95 76% —
12 U. of Massachusetts - Amherst Architecture $91,293 94 100% 95 60% 1410
13 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Art and Design $87,876 94 86% 61 30% —
14 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Graphic Communication $87,135 93 94% 80 30% —
15 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Architecture $85,047 92 97% 172 30% —
16 Wellesley Media Arts and Sciences $96,840 91 100% 25 14% 1510
17 Art Center College of Design Product Design $90,447 91 100% 60 76% —
18 Cal Poly - Pomona Architecture $76,979 91 92% 85 42% —
19 Iowa State Architecture $83,996 90 96% 78 85% 1240
20 U. of Washington Visual Communication Design $85,351 90 98% 20 42% 1410
21 U. of Washington Industrial Design $85,351 90 98% 15 42% 1410
22 Northeastern Graphic Design $95,088 90 96% 42 24% 1490
23 U. of Texas at Austin Design $88,050 90 92% 49 22% 1380
24 U. of Texas at Austin Interior Design $88,050 90 92% 15 22% 1380
25 U. of Arizona Urban Planning $85,914 90 98% 67 85% 1280
26 Art Center College of Design Transportation Design $88,384 90 92% 37 76% —
27 Cleveland State Music Therapy $78,018 89 94% 10 72% —
28 Cal Poly - Pomona Landscape Architecture $74,877 89 93% 62 42% —
29 Virginia Tech Architecture $82,356 89 96% 133 55% 1360
30 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo City and Regional Planning $79,204 88 100% 30 30% —
31 Rochester Institute of Technology New Media Design $89,398 88 100% 43 71% 1380
32 U. of North Texas Art Education $76,239 88 92% 51 81% 1100
33 UCLA Design | Media Arts $85,813 88 91% 49 9% —
34 Pennsylvania State Landscape Architecture $82,300 87 100% 29 55% 1330
35 Cornell Apparel and Textiles $93,068 87 100% 23 8% 1530
36 Cal Poly - Pomona City/Urban, Community, and Regional Planning $71,392 87 94% 44 42% —
37 San Francisco State Design and Visual Communications $71,008 86 93% 106 93% —
38 San Francisco State Interior Design $71,008 86 93% 52 93% —
39 San Francisco State Industrial Design $71,008 86 93% 33 93% —
40 Cal State Northridge Urban Studies $70,696 86 88% 29 88% —
41 Pacific Lutheran Music Education $83,640 86 100% 13 88% 1150
42 CUNY Queens Music Education $69,509 86 94% 15 52% —
43 U. of California, Berkeley Architecture $79,951 86 92% 109 11% —
44 Marist Fashion Merchandising $81,498 86 99% 102 40% —
45 U. of Central Missouri Drafting Technology $72,672 85 92% 15 64% —
46 U. of Washington Music Education $78,633 85 100% 10 42% 1410
47 Fashion Institute of Technology Fashion Merchandising $68,906 85 92% 405 58% —
48 Miami University - Ohio Interactive Media and Design $81,064 85 95% 84 74% 1300
49 Utah State Apparel and Textile Manufacture $73,192 84 100% 35 93% 1180
50 Art Center College of Design Illustration $81,385 84 89% 140 76% —